Mental Health Awareness Days

Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions. Our main aim is to inform and sensibilize you on how to cope with demanding or stressful situations during your research. Ideally, the presented topics will help you to smoothen stressful situations and even prevent too heavy mental load. During these three days, you will find various online offers (most of them in English), e.g. for relaxation exercises in the mornings as well as and, a number of short workshops on topics such as resilience, concentration, positive psychology, the effect of alcohol  (the risk of addictive behavior?) and mindfulness. In addition, there will be information on how to become a mental health first aider and you will be introduced to the method of peer coaching.

The event is open to interested doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of all participating institutions. Supervisors are welcome as well.

Most of the programme will take place online so you can participate from Leipzig, Halle and Jena easily. Additionally there will be an on-site peer coaching workshop at each location on November 2, 2023 and a workshop on mindfulness at UFZ on November 3, 2023.

There is no registration needed – just join the event which you are interested in. Exceptions are the on-site workshops on peer coaching and mindfulness.